NATO Terms Hard to Swallow
For Some Serbian Hard-Liners

By

Robert Block Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated May 18, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- At a time when hopes are high in Yugoslavia that President Slobodan Milosevic may be ready to accept a diplomatic end to the Kosovo conflict, some Yugoslav officials are still preaching a message of no retreat.

Zoran Andjelkovic, Yugoslavia's de facto governor of Kosovo province, insisted in an interview that only a lightly armed international "presence" -- excluding U.S. and British soldiers, and under the banner of the United Nations -- should be deployed in Kosovo, and only then after...